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Possibly. There's nothing wrong with a microsoft protocol or technology becoming a standard if it really is a good system for doing it. Its a very brief summary but just reading michael's article it seems like a reasonable, relatively simple system to handle multi-touch *shrugs*

both are essentially mac os 8 and windows 95 knockoffs. i laughed a bit when both gnome and canonical tried to copy lion's full screen mode just to stay hip. behind the moralistic rhetoric free software is just a Chinese Gucci bag on a soapbox.

while linux is great, in 20 years it had absolutely zero innovative ideas in multimedia. everything from WIMP to gpu acceleration to composting to multitouch were copied from proprietary platforms.

Right, because all the proprietary platforms simultaneously and independently came up with things like gpu acceleration and compositing and only linux copied. It is the same with every innovations: one system comes up with it, and the rest copy.

Originally Posted by garegin

both are essentially mac os 8 and windows 95 knockoffs.

Right, they both are simultaneously knock-offs of two completely different desktop environments. Except of course for all the things they have that neither of those had at the time, and some they never had, such such as virtual desktops, multiple panels, additional panel content, etc. And that ignores all the stuff that has come since, such as

Originally Posted by garegin

i laughed a bit when both gnome and canonical tried to copy lion's full screen mode just to stay hip.

Right, its not like apple ever copied Linux *cough*virtualdesktops*cough*

And don't forget all the software stacks that were originally developed for Linux and Apple later incorporated into Mac Os X, such as cups and webkit.

Right, because all the proprietary platforms simultaneously and independently came up with things like gpu acceleration and compositing and only linux copied. It is the same with every innovations: one system comes up with it, and the rest copy.

Right, they both are simultaneously knock-offs of two completely different desktop environments. Except of course for all the things they have that neither of those had at the time, and some they never had, such such as virtual desktops, multiple panels, additional panel content, etc. And that ignores all the stuff that has come since, such as

Right, its not like apple ever copied Linux *cough*virtualdesktops*cough*

And don't forget all the software stacks that were originally developed for Linux and Apple later incorporated into Mac Os X, such as cups and webkit.

Virtual desktops did not original in Linux. Let's step back for a while. If you consider FreeBSD. How many innovations did they have in storage or networking and how many in multimedia? Do you see the patern. The win95 interface was at the time a breakthrough, gnome and kde were the me-too. Other than activities kde 4.8 everything else is a copy.

Who cares where the ideas came from, our implementations are free and yay for the extra support/features. Though I have no idea what this is actually about (it's just another touch screen specification?). But I won't complain.

Besides if anything apparently Microsoft probably took many a inspiration from KDE for Win 7 and the likes, but KDE is far more powerful and feature packed than the Windows shell, though its almost too customizable for some.

while linux is great, in 20 years it had absolutely zero innovative ideas in multimedia. everything from WIMP to gpu acceleration to composting to multitouch were copied from proprietary platforms.

Linux had ideas. But no hardware vendor ever showed interest, because it would be a waste of money (since people use Windows, not Linux.) Over the years, countless email has been sent to various vendors on how to do things better in new ways. But if you don't have the market share, you get ignored. No matter what you come up with, vendors will not put their money behind it.